Re: [PATCH] mtd: physmap: physmap-bt1-rom: Fix unintentional stack access

From: Serge Semin
Date: Fri Feb 12 2021 - 11:36:06 EST


On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 04:40:22AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Cast &data to (char *) in order to avoid unintentionally accessing
> the stack.
>
> Notice that data is of type u32, so any increment to &data
> will be in the order of 4-byte chunks, and this piece of code
> is actually intended to be a byte offset.

Thanks, one more time.)
Acked-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Fixes: b3e79e7682e0 ("mtd: physmap: Add Baikal-T1 physically mapped ROM support")
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1497765 ("Out-of-bounds access")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c
> index a35450002284..58782cfaf71c 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void __xipram bt1_rom_map_copy_from(struct map_info *map,
> if (shift) {
> chunk = min_t(ssize_t, 4 - shift, len);
> data = readl_relaxed(src - shift);
> - memcpy(to, &data + shift, chunk);
> + memcpy(to, (char *)&data + shift, chunk);
> src += chunk;
> to += chunk;
> len -= chunk;
> --
> 2.27.0
>